Barbora Krejčíková came out victorious from the Czech tennis duel of the second round on the clay Roland Garros. She defeated Barbora Strýcová, 32, who was 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3 in Paris today and is in the third round for the first time in her third participation in the main singles singles competition. Kateřina Siniaková advanced there for the third time in a row at the French Open. She defeated Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenko 6: 3, 6: 4.
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Kateřina Siniaková on the archive picture.
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In the duel of leading deblists – Strýcová is number two and Krejčíková is nine in the WTA doubles ranking – the more experienced Strýcová had better entries into the sets. She went to a break in each, but only succeeded in the second set. In the first set, Krejčíková turned the score from 1: 4, in the third set she quickly erased the loss from the first game and decided with a break to 4: 2.
Twenty-four-year-old Krejčíková ended the match after two hours and 42 minutes due to a mistake by her opponent. In the 3rd round, he will play with Bulgarian Cvetana Pironkova, who was not entered in the 2nd round by the injured Serena Williams from the USA.
Debacle? The outsider trained the world number one with a dream. And Djokovic applauded
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Currently, the 114th singer in the world, Krejčíková, should move into the top 100 of the singles chart for the first time in her career thanks to advancing to the 3rd round. She played the main singles competition at the grand slam for the first time the year before last in Paris (1st round) and this year in Australia (2nd round). She could have joined the US Open, but she did not fly to New York due to coronavirus.
Kateřina Siniaková had a very difficult task after winning the first round over the American Lauren Davis (7: 6, 6: 2). Russia can do it for the Hradec Králové native, she has always won three matches so far, but the last duel dates back to 2016. Today, Siniak won.
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